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A Bush fan Speaks out
by: Interview with Joe Mellon - printed on 09-11-2002
I pretty much see two different arguments for why we shouldn't invade Iraq. The first is the emotional plea, and that's complete garbage. It lacks common sense and represents an extreme inability to deal with reality.
Wage peace, not war
by: Matt McAuliffe - printed on 09-11-2002
War is terror. This reality was made horrifyingly real to all Americans a year ago when members of al-Qaeda flew airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania.
It's a Shame About Boz
Chapter three of five: setting the stage--workers fall ill and questions arise.
by: Jim McCandlish, J.D. - printed on 01-31-2001
Boz, as he’s known, was a man among men in the trades, a strapping 6' 4" millwright who loved his work. He’d joined the Local out of Pasco for the specific purpose of hiring on at the poison gas incinerator construction project near Umatilla. The cost projected at almost $600 million made it the largest employer that corner of northeastern Oregon had ever seen. The government was under an international treaty obligation to destroy its entire stockpile of war gases, 12% of which were stored at Umatilla.
America fights, Europe funds
by: Felix Tismer - printed on 02-20-2002
It was the father of the current US President who, in the early nineties, proclaimed the beginning of a new world order. Today, George Bush Jr. seems determined to back up those words with actions. Since singling out Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as the ?axis of evil? during his state of the union address, the world has become increasingly concerned about this superpower engaging in a policy of self-justice.
Children of Abraham Need to Return to Common Faith
by: Fr. Gary Ruzicka - printed on 11-03-2000
The situation in the Holy Lands is sad because all of the people involved consider themselves the Children of Abraham. Each considers Abraham their “Father in Faith.” As tragic as it may be, religion is the source of the conflict. For Israel, the sign of being chosen as the Children of Abraham is the sign of the Land. Therefore they cannot relinquish it. The solution to the whole problem might be to return to that common heritage as “Children of Abraham” and concentrate on what they have in common.
The Death Penalty is state sponsored murder
by: Kawai Washburn - printed on 03-06-2002
What is justice?
Stop and think about it for a second, because it's a difficult question to answer. Often, what may seem fair, right and just to one person is nothing of the sort to another person. What is the appropriate response to a crime? Indentured slave labor in barren wastelands has been tried. Solitary confinement in a sensory deprivation cell is another alternative. Then, of course, there is always the option of just killing the criminal.